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Ben.............please evacuate your house immediatly.....the guys in the hazmat suits are on their way.............please place your head between your knees and kiss your butt good bye till they arrive

i use CFLs i like them but one thing has happened and its the only problem. i bought a lamp fixture not unlike any other and it keeps burning new bulbs within a few weeks. the other fixture is perfect no flaws. but the other... anywho ill be getting rid of them for a bit.
Alex

Everything is explainable. The seemingly unexplainable is but a result of our insufficient knowledge.- Hans Brewer

Don't forget you can't use a dimmer switch with fluorescents. That isn't an issue for regular tubes, but I bet plenty of people put CFLs in fixtures having a dimmer. Maybe that's causing the short life span problem.

Bruce in CT

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

flourecents have way more mercury, not too mention they're unsafe. I can't belive people are falling for this garbage. don't get me wrong, I love the enviroment but that doesn't mean we can destroy ourselves in the meantime!

Ben.............please evacuate your house immediatly.....the guys in the hazmat suits are on their way.............please place your head between your knees and kiss your butt good bye till they arrive

Should I seriously be worried about this? I told my dad about the broken bulb, but he thought nothing of it. This happened several months ago, almost a year maybe.

Still, it's important to keep things in perspective in a localized manner. Old flourescent tubes had, what, 10-100 times the amount of mercury than modern CFLs. Anyone else not hearing horror stories about those?

The larger problem yet may come when more people start using CFLs and need to dispose old ones. More and more CFL disposal programs are being started, but who knows how many will end up in landfills?